Spent a lot of time playing with Encore over the weekend and I have to say the program is not user-friendly at all! But, once you figure it out (like I said, it took me the weekend), it really is a powerful program and there's talk it's the best for burning to Blu-Ray.
Top peeve:
Automatic button routing (selecting the path you want the arrows to work on your DVD player remote). This feature would work great if the program tried to follow a default algorithm linked into numbering the buttons, unfortunately this program is not intuitive enough to keep dummies like me out of trouble. I even tried adding my buttons to the menu in the same order I wanted them to route through the remote control arrow buttons, thinking the program would pick up on what I was trying to do. Eventually I gave in and scanned through Creative Cow for some answers which still were not thorough enough for me but at least got me pointed in the right direction. I learned to make sure the menu was selected in the project window, then I checked that all my buttons had the correct numbers applied to them in the properties window for each button. Then, I selected the icon on the menu viewer screen that looks like the 4 arrows on a remote (if you look real, real close). The icons pop up on each of the buttons. Next, and here's where I had trouble, you hover over the icon until you see a hand and drag to the next button you want the remote to go to. Sounds easy. Wasn't for me. You actually have to work backwards. This is key. Choose the button you want to go to first, click on the arrow direction and drag back to the button you want it to come from. Don't even try doing this forwards...trust me. Just remember WORK BACKWARDS and you will be okay. Oh, and remember you need to select all the directions one at a time at each button location...forward, back, up, down.
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